At tonight’s Unpacked event inside NY City, Samsung announced its upcoming flasgship phone: The Samsung Galaxy S4. Despite the awkward plus tone-deaf presentation, the telephone itself looks very clean. The screen is big. It’s a 5-inch monster with a 1920×1080 resolution. With Super AMOLED show, the S4 sports an impressive pixel density of 441 pixels per inch (PPI). In comparison, the 4-inch iPhone screen has a resolution of 1136×640 at 326 PPI. Being thus big, you’d think it’d be a lot heavier than an iPhone, yet it’s amazingly close. The S4 is just 130 grams, as well as the iPhone 5 weighs 18 grams lighter. It’s no slouch regarding slimness either. It’s 7.9 mm thick compared to the iPhone’s 7.6 mm level.

The S4 may have 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM over the board, nevertheless it comes inside 3 accessible models differing inside storage. 16GB, 32GB, plus 64GB models is accessible for buy, however keep in your mind which storage is extended by about 64GB with a microSD card. It also comes inside 2 different colors: Black Mist plus White Frost, thus the amount of models jumps about six total. Depending available, it may either sport a 1.9Ghz quad-core processor or perhaps a 1.6Ghz eight-core processor. (See: Samsung Galaxy S4 dimensions, fat, power, plus hardware specs confirmed before launch)

The back camera may shoot 13 megapixel images, plus attributes back-illuminated sensor to better image standard. Samsung boasts regarding completely no shutter lag, however we’ll see regarding which whenever you receive the hardware inside the hands. The forward-facing camera reaches a maximum of 2 megapixels, yet it has the same back-illuminated sensor plus deficiency of shutter lag which the back camera possesses.

The S4 is bad with radios. It may help GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSPA+, plus Cat 3 LTE with a peak download of 100Mbps. The 2G plus 3G radios every help 4 different bands, however, the LTE radio usually fluctuate depending available. As far as WiFi goes, the 802.11 A, B, G, plus N help is there. Interestingly, Samsung is officially leaping aboard the 802.11 AC train too. The standard isn’t ratified yet, thus we’re stuck with a draft variation. GPS, GLONASS, Bluetooth four.0, plus NFC are all aboard too. Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) 2.0 plus an IR LED are packed inside there, nevertheless there’s nevertheless no word found on the kitchen sink being tossed inside too.

This super telephone can ship with Android four.2.2 Jelly Bean about it, to anticipate your standard qualities there. Samsung can’t assist itself, thus it’s including certain specific qualities too. S Voice Drive switches the S4 into driving mode whenever associated to a car’s Bluetooth program. Samsung Optical Reader works optical character recognition (OCR) plus QR code deciphering for we from the box. Samsung WatchON lets we place which IR LED to wise utilize because a controller for TVs plus alternative set-top boxes. S Translator might even convert text plus sound to different languages. All of the sounds absolutely superb, however the proof is within the pudding. After Apple kind of whiffed with Siri, skepticism is within full impact.

Samsung truly took its time marketing you found on the double camera functionality. Whenever you’re recording a video or taking a pic with all the S4, you are able to insert the image within the forward facing camera straight found on the image within the back facing camera. That’s neat, but it appears like Samsung is generating a fuss over a very easy feature. Air View enables content preview simply by hovering a finger over an e-mail, movie, or image — much like Quick Look about OS X. Air Gesture, found on the alternative hand, enables you to change a music track, scroll a webpage, or answer the telephone with all the wave of the hand. Weird, right? Why not only tap? Samsung Adapt Sound keeps the sound level at the right level, as well as the Samsung Adapt Display offers the greatest watching experience based found on the kind of application. Hopefully they all function because advertised.

There are merely too several qualities to even mention. As ridiculous because the presentation was, the feature set may be even crazier. Both software plus hardware bullet lists appear never-ending. Accelerometer, RGB light, geomagnetic, proximity, gyro, barometer, temperature, humidity, plus gesture sensors are all included inside the S4. I mean, a humidity sensor? Yikes, that’s a great deal of hardware because tiny casing. Will anybody really wish To employ these, though?

The Samsung Galaxy S4 can launch at the finish of April inside over 100 markets. It qualities a 2600 mAh removable power, nevertheless no particular power existence estimates. Pricing, at minimum for today, remains a secret. We’ll recognize more because you close launch, however we’re left guessing for today.